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Show Page TIIE JOURNAL 4 UNHAMIOUS 0 0 DUET 0 TAXES THAT REDUCE EMPLOYMENT In a recent issue Colliers published a dramatic double-- 1 page spread demanding repeal of the wartime excise taxes on commodities and services. It showed just how these burden the consumer. And the point was that these taxes reduce employment penalize consumption discourage business. You pay a wartime excise tax every time you buy a piece of luggage, a bottle of baby oil, some modest jewelry, and many other items which certainly cannot be called luxuries in a nation which prides itself on its high and rising living standards. You also pay them when you make a long distance telephone call, or send a telegram, or travel on a train or a bus or a plane services which, in many instances, are absolute necessities. And these taxes, it must be remembered, come right on top of the thousand and one other taxes which business and individuals must pay, and which are part of the cost of everything the consumer buys. The excise taxes were not passed primarily to raise revenue. They were designed to discourage avoidable civilian use of goods and services when we were at war, and everything possible had to be sacrificed to our military needs. When they were passed, it was practically universally said that they would be repealed as soon as the war ended. The war did end, years ago but those taxes are still on the books. Some experts actually think that repeal of the taxes would increase government revenues, by stimulating business in the affected enterprises. In any event, any loss could easily be made up, and more, by paring just a little of the waste in the government. Collier's hit the nail on the head when it said that the taxes reduce employment penalize consumption discourage business. JUST A STOVE Take a look at the stove in your kitchen. It seems com- its simply one of millions which are practically identical. Yet that stove, like other household equipment, is an example of the amazing efficiency of American industry and, in addition, of the vital role rail transportation plays in the life of the country. Into that stove have gone iron ore, coal, steel, limestone, sand, chemicals and many other elements, natural and manufactured. They may have originated in a score of states, far from the factory where the stove was made. They had to be hauled to some central point where they could be built and fused into the finished product. And finally, once the stove was produced and crated, it had to be moved dozens or hunLAYTON Miss Barbara Hatch dreds of thousands of miles to the home of the consumer who entertained at the home of her monplace enough Shower Held For Recent Layton Bride bought it. The railroads were involved in every phase of this com plex operation. They brought the raw materials to the factory and they took the finished product away. Other commercial carriers may have played a part. But, nine times out of ten, it is strictly a subsidiary part. For the railroads carry the great bulk of all our freight and virtually all of the heavy freight which feeds the furnaces and machines of producing industry. The railroads, in short, can. handle anything that is moveable something that cannot be said of their competitors. And the railroads pay their own way in every particular and that cannot be said of their competitors either, all of whom are subsidized directly or indirectly by the taxpayers. The railroad track still represents the most effiicent, flexible and comprehensive transportation service that exists. The JOURNAL grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Ray Corbridge, Friday evening at a Personal shower for Mrs. Wallace Rampton, the former Lois Corbridge, a recent bride. -- Guests were Ann Layton, Arlene Call, Janet Layton, Marianne Page, Connie Stevenson, Shirley Young, Fern Hatch, Ester Stevenson, Karen Corbridge, Marlene Day; Joan Moss, Mrs. Afton Hatch, Mrs. Sara Corbridge, Mrs. Katie Parker, Mrs. Isabell Phillips, Mrs. Itha Page, Mrs. Henry Rampton, Mrs. Carmen Dibble, Mrs. Marjorie Corbridge and Mrs. Shirley Parker. Will Speak At Clearfield AND SEE 83rd Birthday LAYTON Mrs. Amanda (HAS STATE M -- WEUDW MS FR WHISKEY Wl A .tNAERS K ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Siatl. Advertising Itepresontative Newspaper Advertising Service. 222 No.- Michigan - Ave. Chicago. Subscription: In combination with THE WEEKLY REFLEX $3.00 per year, payable in advance. Albert W. Epperson Editor Manager Richard 0. Anderson News Editor 111. J. V. Woolsey Display Advertising Manager Ernest R. Little Classified Advertising Manager . Mrs. LISES THE WEED resident of the Mary Rooney, 93, Van Rensselaer home, Troy, N.T., says smoking has been her consolation for being confined to a wheel chair for more than 58 years. Mrs. Rooney likes a good olgar best. Ion t h res ler wc ed il il er xa re is. ,ke h le Rc Mi ws Published By INLAND PRINTING CO. Phone: Kaysville 10 4 C sp 8, 1879. MIMBE1L V - Entered as second-clas- s matter at Layton, Utah, under the Act of March Is J Layton, was honored on her with CLEARFIELD David J. Wil- birthday last Saturday, Loffi son, Ogden attorney, will speak pn luncheon given by Mrs. Government and National Af- Cook at her home. Guests were Mrs. Bert, fairs next Tuesday night at 7:30 when the Special Interest group hard, Mrs. Fred Pingree, of the Clearfield Second ward vid Pingree, Mrs. Howard meets. All interested persons are Mrs. Julius Billiter of Salt invited to be present. A question Mrs. Malcolm Pingree of Og and answer period will follow, Mr. Mrs. Vird Cook, Mrs. Jane Eg Mrs. Ida Sullivan, Mrs. Alma, Wilsons talk. Horace Steed from Kaysville ster and Mrs. Louis J. Cook. presented an illustrated lecture on the care and culture of gladioli and California. Mrs. J. N. when the- Special Interest Group is president of the group, and met Tuesday night. He said that announced that all lesson worn he plans to' plant 100,000 bulbs this been completed this year, year. He displayed colored travel future sessions will be on slides on his travels in Utah, Idaho subjects. - J2 - tsrr? Jv A weekly newspaper published in the interests pf the residents of Davis County, Utah. Ogden Attorney Amanda Cook Honored On Imperial is made by Hiram Walker. Blended whiskey. 86 proof. 70J grain neutral spirits. Hiram Walker & Sons Inc., Peoria, Illinois. J KNEIV vil fi h fi |